Game apparatus.



No. 868,245. PATENTED AUG. 13,-190'7.

, G. W. WINDLE. GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 28, 1906.

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GEORGE W. WINDLE, OF VALLEY FALLS, KANSAS.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1907.

Application filed August 28,1905. Serial No. 275,985.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. WINDLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Valley Falls, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to games in which the principal elements are a cue, balls, and a smooth surfaced game board; and in addition thereto my invention includes a dial and hand and a device mounted on the game board which is adapted to operate the hand when struck by the ball, the extent of the operation as to the points on the dial depending on the manner in which said device is struck, or in other words upon the skill of the player.

My invention consists further of the parts, improvements, and combinations hereinafter explained and claimed.

The purposes of my invention are not only amusement, pleasurable entertaimnent, and delightful pastime, but also to promote physical culture to induce in the most natural and pleasant manner healthful exercise and recreation for the body and mind,-not too severe,which is so much needed and so much neglected by students and the professional and business classes.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification and in the description thereof, I have illustrated the invention in its preferred form and have shown the best mode of applying the principles thereof; but it is to be understood that the invention itself is not confined to these drawings and the description of the drawings, that it may be applied to other uses, that parts and combinations thereof as herein separately claimed may be used in connection with other devices of like general nature, and that I contemplate changes in form, proportions, materials, and arrangement, and the transposition of parts, and the substitution of equivalent members, without departing from the spirit of the invention. 7 I

Figure 1 is a plan view of the game board with my invention applied thereto. Figs. 2, 3, and 1 are details of the corner pockets; Fig. 2 is a sectional view through the line 22, of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a sectional view through the line 3-3, of Fig. 1; and Fig. i is a sectional plan through the lines d f, of Figs. 2 and 3. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are details of the dial and mechanism connected therewith, all enlarged. Fig. 5 is a central sectional view of the frame or standard through the line 5-5, Figs. 6 and 7 the moving parts being shown in side elevation. Fig. 6 shows the gears and is taken through the line 6-6, of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a sectional plan taken through the line 77, of Fig. 5. Figs. 8 and 9 are side and end views, respectively, of the form of cue which I prefer to use.

Like reference numerals indicate like or corresponding parts throughout the several views.

1 is the game board of any suitable size and shape. Preferably it is either four or six feet square as this is a convenient size for indoor use. The sides 2 are beveled slightly inwardly, 3, to prevent the balls from bounding out. At each corner is a plate 5, covering an opening 4 into a pocket constructed preferably as follows: The cleat 6 surrounds the entire board and fitting in a corner thereof is a receptacle 8 having the shield or sides 9, 9, with an opening at the corner, 10, the bottom board projecting, 11, to form a lip whereby the balls may be removed and taken in the same hand, by despring pressing thelip 11, the receptacle swinging on the hinge 7.

The bottom of the game board may be made of slate, or of wood planed smooth and covered with billiard cloth, or may be made of any other suitable material; it should, however, be even and smooth, in order that the balls may pass thereover without deflection.

The entire game board may be neatly finished in hard wood with neat metal trimmings.

12 represents a number of balls, such as may be used in playing the games for which the apparatus is adapted, and may be of rubber or other suitable material, and of a size that may be confined in playing, to the game board.

Upon the surface of the game board, and preferably in the middle thereof, is a device 13, hereafter to be explained in detail, which is designed to be struck or impinged upon by the balls when driven by a cue, and a ring, simply a couple of lines drawn on the surface, surrounds the device, to indicate the limit outside of which the balls must be driven from.

On a standard 15 erected from the middle of the game board, is a plate 16 on which are the blocks 16, 16, carrying thereon the dial 17 which may be inclosed by a suitable glass case 18. Between plate 16 and dial plate 17, is mounted a large gear 19 connected by shaft 21 with the dial hand 20. Gear 19 is driven by pinion 22 on shaft 23, which extends through plate 16 and brace 24 and which is provided at its lower end with the intermittent wheel 25.

In a pair of standards 26, 26 is a plate 27 on which is mounted, on ball bearings 29, 29, the main driver 28 carrying the interference pin 30. The driver 28 has a number of spokes or the like and the surfaces between the adjacent arms or spokes are preferably curved, 28 all uniformly, in order that the proper action of the ball may be had when shot against said large drive wheel 28. Interference pin 30 moves the intermittent wheel around one tooth with each revolution of the main wheel 28. When the wheel 28 is properly struck it will spin around many times by reason of its smooth ball bearings; and the parts are to be so related that each revolution of the main wheel will move the dial hand one space in Whichever direction corresponds to the side of the Wheel impinged upon.

As a cue to drive the balls, I prefer simply the piece of spring metal 33, each end of Which is covered by a rubber tube 32 stretched thereon.

In playing the game, the object of one person or set of persons is to turn the dial hand in one direction by striking one side of the main Wheel With the balls; and the object of the other person or set of persons is to turn the dial-hand in the other direction by striking the main Wheel on the other side. Of course, if a player strikes the main Wheel on the Wrong side, this will have the effect of scoringnap for the other side. The game may also include plays by bounds, and rebounds, and the like. Obviously the scores will depend upon the skill of the players, generally in sending the ball so as to strike the main Wheel so as to cause it to spin most freely and thereby score up the highest possible number of points. Various rules may be adopted in the use of the apparatus. In the use of the pockets, I

prefer to consider a ball falling therein as out of use until the next deal. Either one or more balls may be taken from the pockets very easily, as I have explained.

What I claim is:

1. The combination of a gameboard, a standard thereon, a dial and dial-hand carried by the standard, a gear controlling the dial-hand, a pinion meshing with the gear, an intermittent wheel connected with the pinion, a main drive wheel adapted to be struck by the ball passing over the surface of the gameboard and to be rotated thereby in either direction according to the side on which it is struck, said drivewheel carrying an interference pin for actuating the intermittent Wheel.

2. The combination of a game-board, a standard erected in the middle thereof and bearing a plate and a dial, a dial-hand, a gear, a pinion, and an intermittent wheel operating together, and a main drive wheel 28 carrying an interference pin to actuate the intermittent wheel for the purpose set forth,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of subscribing Witnesses.

GEORGE \V. \VINDLE.

Witnesses DAVID DU'r'r, J. C. BURKERT. 

